Best ben gurion biography of donald

Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israelby Anita Shapira. Translated by Anthony Berris.(Yale University Press, 288 pp.

$24.95)

Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel’s Soulby Daniel Gordis.

You can also look up Anita Shapira's Ben-Gurion for a good, quick biography that really gets you to know the man.

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A fascinating biography.

Tom Segev's newest book, A State at Any Cost, is a biography of Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, and has sparked quite a bit of controversy in.

David Ben-Gurion was the primary national founder and first prime minister of the State of Israel.

(Schocken, 320 pp. $27.95)

The lives of David Ben-Gurion and Menachem Begin are central to understanding modern Israeli history. Ben-Gurion, of course, is considered the founder of the State of Israel and was the Jewish state’s first prime minister, while Begin was Ben-Gurion’s longtime opponent who ushered in a new era when he became prime minister in 1977.

Each has received a new biography that offers vastly different portrayals of its subject and his political foil.

Of the two books, Anita Shapira’s Ben-Gurion is the more straightforward. Perhaps too carefully at times, she traces Ben-Gurion’s life from his youth in Eastern Europe to his rise as a Labor Zionist leader to his assumption of the reins of the nascent Jewish state.

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